Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1260
Points per Word
0.000397
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This story is a fictionalised account about Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escaping to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1849.